LDA plaza fire: Short circuiting determined as cause

Last week’s deadly fire at the LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton Road was caused by a short-circuit, a report confirmed on Thursday.

According to the final report, Rescue 1122 was informed very late, which cause delay in the rescue activities.

Initially, the fire erupted at the seventh floor of the building.

The first rescue vehicle to arrive at the scene was approximately after 30 minutes of the start of the inferno. There was a stiff breeze blowing at that part of the day which caused spread of the fire at a very fast pace and within 30 minutes, it had engulfed the eighth and ninth floors partially as well.

The firefighters struggled for 24 hours to extinguish the blaze and 28 people were confirmed dead in the incident.